The blue wave hit, MAGA got washed away, and Janesh showed up in a robe to celebrate. On this election-week episode of Room Temp, Janesh and Markos break down Democrats' stunning midterm victories, from Texas and South Carolina to Kansas and beyond, as Republicans scramble to explain what the hell just happened. Elon Musk spent a fortune, Trump is blaming everyone but himself, and JD Vance is already eyeing the wreckage. Plus, the Democratic establishment wants credit, Obama is back in the spotlight, and Janesh has some ambitious plans for Woke 3.0. The party's over for MAGA. The afterparty is just getting started.
28 Oct 2026
Episode 34: Slush Funds, Cheesecake, and a Blue Tsunami
Less than a week until the midterms, and Republicans are busy defending the Cheesecake Factory. Janesh and Markos unpack explosive allegations about Jared Kushner's secretive financial dealings with Gulf states, wonder why the media isn't treating his phone like Hunter Biden's laptop, and revisit Barack Obama's brutal comparison of Trump's White House to a Cheesecake Factory run by Saddam Hussein. Plus, Trump brags about oil profits while Americans struggle with prices, Democrats dream of a blue tsunami, and Markos makes a bold prediction about what a Republican wipeout could mean for Trump's future. The election is almost here, and somehow the closing argument involves cheesecake.
21 Oct 2026
Episode 33: Dirty Tricks, Family Drama, and Election Panic
Two weeks until the midterms, and apparently everyone has decided to make things weird. Janesh and Markos dig into Republicans' increasingly desperate dirty tricks, from a Josh Hawley staffer's viral confrontation with Abdul El-Sayed to a truly ugly family attack ad in Ohio and a bizarre anti-trans mailing in Texas. Meanwhile, Democrats are finding time for their favorite pre-election tradition: fighting with each other. Plus, early voting is heating up, the hosts debate whether party unity can survive another two weeks, and nobody's quite sure what Trump will do when the election results start rolling in. Buckle up. The final stretch is getting messy.
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